Level Contest 8: The Winner!

[Willhart]

wow rude
average? mediocre? you could at least be civil and not insult people's abilities
also if you were to look at the list
you'd see even tier 4 goes through quite a few changes

lol yk you can remove any of the judges and changes will happen

[Megar]

yeah obviously
but not as many as emral caused

[Marina]

Dude if Emral's reviews get removed I might end up in Tier 2.

I don't want that shit.

[Megar]

be a man and let it happen
i wouldn't care if i were somehow put to last place because of this
this is for people like darkmatt who got a really shit score for no reason

[Marina]

Wait a second.... this must be an error... I just calculated my score without Emral's score and I got a better one. Instead of 7.059/10 I got 7.07375.... EMRAL'S REVIEW ACTUALLY PULLS ME DOWN

*gets out pitchfork*

Let's do this.

[Megar]

im not complaining about me or anything to do with me
im complaining about what emral's reviews have done to the results

[Megar]

i don't mind his review itself, he brings up valid points
but the score just doesn't correspond to it
in other reviews he just gives them shit for reasons that make no sense tho

[Imaynotbehere4long]

that was a typo. In my posts I tend to do stupid things like that in my posts.

Ha ha! I was just curious, that's all.

Uhm, Idk, the light block was probably kinda original...

Hmm...I guess I'll just have to wait and play the level myself...

I wanted it to look like it came out of a paralel dimenstion or something

In that case, have the ground and grass above it on a separate layer, and have that layer disappear when it is being covered up by the castle. Better yet, rather than have it come from underground (like you clearly stated you didn't want to happen), have it just appear, but with multiple layers, each being the same tile-set, but with a different level of transparency. Example: give the first copy of the tile-set a white mask sprite and have it appear first, then give the second copy of the tile-set a light grey/gray mask sprite and have it appear second (after a .1 or .2 second delay), etc. That would even fix the killing-Mario error.

Okay, where was I?

It can the also the case that those Clouds from the Pipes can be going down because they are hitting the sealing.

*ceiling.

special blocks are all in great places, and several little bonus room as well.

and *there are* several little bonus room*s*

Those who were to stubborn

*too

Emral is inactive.

...not permanently, right?? Emral can't abandon the forums; he/she had the biggest impact on CC8 (I'm not even talking about the scores)!

[Darkonius Mavakar]

sir, emral is male.
i know this is offtopic but pls

[Willhart]

im not complaining about me or anything to do with me
im complaining about what emral's reviews have done to the results

I thought you were referring to Kyo's comment. My bad. Even so, a judge's score is his own decision, and a few complaints won't change whether it counts or not. I agree, however, in the aspect that Emral could have said things a little nicer. For example, instead of

Another short level. This one surprises me as it did a lot with as few enemies as possible while maintaining a general difficulty. It didn't stand out and was most likely rushed, but damn if the designer would've just done more with this. The frozen/thawing water gimmick would've been really nice to see here.
Guess: I really have no idea.

, He could have said something like this "Another level with few enemies that surprises me, how wonderful -_- I just don't feel as though the creator put in as much effort as he could have actually done," or something like that. I cannot speak through Emral's mouth nor know how he talks, but you get the idea.

Wrapping the review in positive points and ideas for improvement makes it less hurtful for the one who gets it. The points are there and the level was not completely bad. Gotta justify where those couple of points given are from. The scale used was different too.

[Marina]

Uhm, Idk, the light block was probably kinda original...

Hmm...I guess I'll just have to wait and play the level myself...

Sure if you want, I uploaded it already, it's the version I sent to Valtteri for the contest
http://www.smbxgame.com/forums/v ... =32&t=4381

I wanted it to look like it came out of a paralel dimenstion or something

In that case, have the ground and grass above it on a separate layer, and have that layer disappear when it is being covered up by the castle. Better yet, rather than have it come from underground (like you clearly stated you didn't want to happen), have it just appear, but with multiple layers, each being the same tile-set, but with a different level of transparency. Example: give the first copy of the tile-set a white mask sprite and have it appear first, then give the second copy of the tile-set a light grey/gray mask sprite and have it appear second (after a .1 or .2 second delay), etc. That would even fix the killing-Mario error.

Uhm but wouldn't it be able to glitch through the castle then? Like I said, I was too lazy to fix it, please don't judge me lol

It can the also the case that those Clouds from the Pipes can be going down because they are hitting the sealing.

*ceiling.

If you haven't noticed yet, bossedit is German, and doesn't speak perfect English. As long as you understand what he's trying to say, just leave him, please.

[Kyo]

@Blueoak: I really fail to see how average level designer is insulting or rude. I do personally consider you as one, but that doesn't mean I'm trying to insult you or something. I have only played one level from you, so I might be wrong about that, but this is my personal impression of you. If anything, it could be considered as offense if you call someone who is popularly acknowledged as some godlike designer, but I don't hear people talking about you as extraordinary level designer. There are a lot of people who consider that classification as compliment. Considering that as rude... are you feeling insecure or something?

@Imaynotbehere4long: I can totally understand why he left. You really wouldn't like seeing fifteen pages of posts about how you screwed up and how you are hated for something you actually spent a lot of effort and time on. This is a good solution to calm down for a bit. I'm certain it's only temporary to get away from the drama, though. I don't think it's permanent.

[Megar]

I was more referring to the mediocre part. That's more of a below average thing. And well, I'm a bit sensitive admittedly.

[Kyo]

I'm not speaking english natively and since there is no direct translation for mediocre, I assumed it to have the same meaning as average, because that's how it's translated. My apology.

[AirShip]

noooo, I did not go to the top 10, T-T

The funny thing is that I received 8 of all judges.

[SMBXxer]

I'm not speaking english natively

Really? But you're English is so good!

Your*
(You're = You are, Your = Ownership)

[SMBXxer]

Lol...spelling ownership of Your.

What?

[Kyo]

I'm not speaking english natively

Really? But you're English is so good!

Well, I've been in this community for over four years now, I learnt it. But thanks, though. It means a lot.

[TLtimelord]

I'm not speaking english natively

Really? But you're English is so good!

Your*
(You're = You are, Your = Ownership)

Fix you are grammar, Snifitguy.

[Valtteri]

Can we not fill this thread pointing out grammar errors? :/